The NAACP is urging Black athletes and fans to “withhold athletic and financial support” from public universities in states that “have moved to limit, weaken or erase Black voting representation”
NYC murders per year:
1955: 306
1965: 634
1975: 1645
1985: 1384
1995: 1177
2005: 539
2015: 352
2025: 303
NYC is safer now than it has been in many decades.
Yet the average Boomer New Yorker will try to convince you that crime is worse now than it was in the 70s, 80s, and 90s.
Hurley on UConn and St. John's advancing in East Region: "It's pretty brutal on Twitter, I think, and socials between our fan bases, but I think we have to try to come together Friday night against our opponents so we can have a blood bath on Sunday."
Se hizo una convocatoria pública para que todos los trombonistas de Nueva York llevaran su instrumento y despidieran a Willie Colón hoy, a la salida de su féretro de la Catedral de San Patricio, donde se celebró una misa en su honor. Mira el resultado:
A war that has no domestic or international legal basis. A war that Americans do not support. A war in response to no imminent threat. A pointless war.
If certain Senate Democrats had not caved to anti-Muslim smears against the Biden admin nominee, Adeel Mangi, this very important lifetime appointment would be filled by a wise and eminently qualified mainstream jurist. Absolute malpractice.
Student journalists are anonymizing bylines, unpublishing stories, and resigning from newsrooms amid a crackdown on pro-Palestinian speech under Trump.
"These are not normal times," the Student Press Law Center has warned.
My latest for @guardian:
https://t.co/8NWgmAS49w